Is input-side understanding separable from output competence? Two clues

sqcai · x · 2026-09-23

The author raises an open question: whether understanding on the input side is separable from competence on the output side. Two data points may offer clues: (1) motor resonance and related phenomena like receptive agrammatism in biological brains; (2) how LLMs are trained in the first place — on output tasks. No conclusion is drawn; these are framed as key evidence to examine.

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